Re: fonts on Mac 10.7.4

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2012-09-02 08:58, Curt wrote:
> Hi, I'm using Lilypond.app 2.16 on Mac 10.7.4.  (The change log says 10.7 is 
> supported now.)
>
> lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x
>
> shows that I have Gloucester MT Extra Condensed available as a font for me.  
> Font Book shows it as being in True Type and Open Type format.

Strange. I have this font installed, too, and it shows nicely a number 
of glyphs in Font Book (not sure whether they belong to Gloucester, 
though).  I reckoned your problem has something to do with the font file 
permissions, so I went to copy it to my user folder - and found out that 
this very font (in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/) not only lacks an 
extension, but also any content. It's got 0 bytes. Yep.
No clue where the magic lies that FontBook can make something out of it, 
but obviously it's not the favorite method of pango.

On a probably completely uninteresting side note, the buzzword 
"condensed" in the font name is recognized and the appropriate version 
of DejaVuSans is used on my machine.

> I try specifying it in my lilypond score file:
>
>                 \override TimeSignature #'font-name = "Gloucester MT Extra 
> Condensed"
>                 \override TimeSignature #'font-size = #2
>
> and it just comes at as some sort of plain sans serif looking thing.  I don't 
> get any error messages or warnings.

You should get a warning like
  warning: time signature symbol `C44' not found; reverting to numbered 
style
(at least if you use 4/4 or 2/2 measures), but then again this can be 
remedied with
  \override TimeSignature #'style = #'numbered
Otherwise your code is fine, and works with other fonts for me.


Best,
Alexander